On 3/20/15 9:02 AM, Dicebot wrote:
On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 00:55:45 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
as an addendum, vibe.d reimplements huge amounts of phobos, is there a
reason none of this is ever getting upstreamed?
Getting something into Phobos is a huge commitment.
Not documentation.
For something widely
used like json library the API discissions can destroy your spare time
in blink of an eye. Sonke actually attempted to do that at some point,
you can see
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lt5s76$is$1...@digitalmars.com#post-lt5s76:24is:241:40digitalmars.com
for what happened.
What happened is that the design has been approved (I emailed Sönke
personally) but he moved places so he didn't have time.
Yes, it is a time commitment. When it wasn't you get things like std.json.
Andrei
